Yorick and the Critics: Sterne's Reputation in England, 1760-1868 |
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... humor of the characters and the situations . Thus Walpole thought Tristram Shandy " a very insipid and tedious performance " with the humor " forever attempted and missed . " Other leading literary figures of the day were not all so ...
... humor of the characters and the situations . Thus Walpole thought Tristram Shandy " a very insipid and tedious performance " with the humor " forever attempted and missed . " Other leading literary figures of the day were not all so ...
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... humor . For this section of the lecture , he draws heavily upon Jean Paul Richter's Vorschule der Aesthetik , and ... Humor , however , is more complicated than either laughter or wit , for words , thoughts , and images cannot by ...
... humor . For this section of the lecture , he draws heavily upon Jean Paul Richter's Vorschule der Aesthetik , and ... Humor , however , is more complicated than either laughter or wit , for words , thoughts , and images cannot by ...
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... humor dwelling in a mind that was coarse or callous . The essence of humor is sensibility , " he says , and " unless seasoned and purified by humor , sensibility is apt to run wild ; will readily corrupt into disease , falsehood , or ...
... humor dwelling in a mind that was coarse or callous . The essence of humor is sensibility , " he says , and " unless seasoned and purified by humor , sensibility is apt to run wild ; will readily corrupt into disease , falsehood , or ...
Contents
BECOMING A CLASSIC 176879 | 40 |
BEAUTIES AND BOWDLERIZATION 178092 | 61 |
BORROWED PLUMES 17931814 | 81 |
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